The big story in the tech world this week concerns allegations that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was “honeypotted” by Alice Huang (no relation), allegedly a Chinese spy. Alice Huang also worked for the Singaporean company Megaspeed, a major customer of Nvidia, creating the potential for conflict issues.
It may look like merely the latest story of a wealthy, powerful man making an irresponsible decision. But below the surface, it is also a harbinger of the erosion of privacy today, as well as the acceleration of espionage and the increasing value of secrets. More time and resources are going to be devoted to uncovering secrets, with honeypotting only one part of a larger picture: more spying, more attempted honeypotting, more private surveillance, more attempts to record (and search, using AI) conversations, more hacks of phones and computers, and more attempts to use AI to figure out the details of people’s lives and plans. Life is going to feel much more cloak-and-dagger, especially for the wealthy and influential.
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